DarkSkyCheck

Seguin, TX Night Sky Brightness

What the night sky looks like over Seguin, TX

Suburban
33.9 nW/cm2/sr

Satellite radiance puts Seguin in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 73.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Seguin.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class - the Bortle scale guide covers why.

Where to go for a darker sky near Seguin

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Cibolo, TX, roughly 15 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

Cibolo, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Seguin against the rest of the dataset

Seguin, TX has a population of about 38,789, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Seguin ranks 2,347 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.